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Ethics - Y2 - Coggle Diagram
Ethics - Y2
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Deception
- Withholding details of hypothesis v giving false information about the purpose of research
- Only use if necessary to answer hypotheses and unlikely to cause distress when revealed
- Deception clear in protocol and reviewed by ethics committee
- Information sheet informs participants that there may be deception
- Full debrief at end of study - information and additional activities (positive mood induced if negative mood created)
Can cause lack of informed consent or psychological harm if not followed ethically - BPS says it is necessary but it has to be done correctly
Key ethical background
In the BPS - key documents:
- Code of Human Research Ethics
- Conducting research with people not having the capacity to consent to their participation: A practical guide for researchers
- Code of Ethics and Conduct
- Data Protection Regulation: Guidance for researchers
- What makes a good assessment of capacity?
Other documents -
- Guidance on conduct and ethics for students - HCPC
- NHS - UK policy framework for health and social care research
Examples of unethical studies -
- Classical conditioning - Little Albert (Watson & Rayner, 1920)
- The Monster Study (Johnson, 1939) - study of child stuttering
-> No consent, high psychological harm and the impact of labelling / self-fulfilling prophecy - have to be careful about how we influence behaviour in the long term
- War Crimes Trials (Nurenberg, 1946)
- Milgram shock experiment - obedience (1961) - highly unethical (reason they created the ethics board)
- Stanford prison experiment (Zimbardo, 1971)
- Tuskegee syphilis study (1932-1972) - provided no treatment despite looking at syphilis in black men
-> Ensure protections are in place for vulnerable groups
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When answering section A - explain the ethical issue, why it is done and then issues with it in relation to BPS guidelines - also put in what can be done to avoid this ethical issue